Porter County Board of Health member Jessica Jepsen was unanimously removed from her post Tuesday morning by the Porter County Board of Commissioners, the same body that appointed her in January, over a social media post Jepsen recently authored referring to the COVID-19 vaccine.
The specific post in question read: “I hope this was not a case of receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. As a Porter County Board of Health Member we are receiving lots of peer reviewed studies from the community about how deadly this vaccine is. What is crazy is that only the doctors not receiving government funding on the board are actually reading and commenting about them.”The comment was reportedly made on a post about the unexpected death of a high school classmate.
Biggs made a recommendation to remove Jepsen and fellow commissioners Laura Blaney, D-South, and Barb Regnitz, R-Center, agreed. “There is certainly a decorum level that needs to be maintained on the board,” Blaney said. Jepsen said in an interview after the meeting her ouster isn’t about her social media posting, but is retaliation from health board attorney David Hollenbeck for her efforts to hold him accountable to state statute in a variety of areas of management of the board of health. “I am holding our health department attorney to state statute and he isn’t happy about it,” Jepsen said. “He told me a week and a half ago, ‘I guess this is war.
Jepsen also contends that health department administrator Carrie Gschwind was illegally placed in that role when the former administrator resigned. Jepsen said the position was never advertised.Hollenbeck, who has been the attorney for the board of health for 49 years, says it is not accurate that the position needs to be advertised.
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